As part of its national campaign of " Change & Hope with Chiranjeevi" Progressive Telugu Org ( PTO) organized its fifth event in Bay Area, CA on 12/29/07.

 

PTO Bay Area Co-ordinators Srinivas Manapragada and Kalyan Palla welcommed the audience .

 

All the attendees observed two minutes silence and paid homage to Sri Venkat Rao and hoped Chiranjeevi would recover from this shock soon.

 

 

Ram Tatineni, Nataional Convener of PTO started the meeting and conveyed the "Change & Hope With Chiranjeevi" message to the audience and explained need of the day for the state of AP to have an alternate political party with leadership of Chiranjeevi .

 

Noted california Indian journalist Mr Sam Rao participated in the event.

 

Several local area activists and Chiranjeevi Well-Wishers participated in the discussion and expressed their opinion on wide variety of topics including the need for the new party, policies of new party, how to avoid corrupt/criminal political leaders from other parties to new party.

 

Speakers included Srinivas Manapragada, Kalyan Palla,Lakshman,Bharath,Srikanth Doddapaneni  and others.

 

Photos of the events can be viewed at http://picasaweb.google.com/ramtatineni

 

For more details please visit www.chiruforap.com